Lyon 2024 "Matter Materiality"

 

36th CIHA World Congress

Matter Materiality
 

Sunday 23 June – Friday 28 June 2024
Centre de Congrès de Lyon (France)

The 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art is organized under the auspices of the French Committee of Art History (CFHA) by a partnership between the by the French Committee of Art History (CFHA), the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) and the Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA).

 

 

The 36th CIHA Congress aims to build a bridge between the humanities and experimental sciences on current issues, share approaches from different fields, promote encounters between researchers and professionals from all over the world and encourage those who will create the Art History and Heritage of tomorrow.

 

(Re)discover the PROGRAMME

 

The theme Matter Materiality

Matter and materiality are inherent to the conception, production, interpretation and conservation of artifacts in all cultures across all period. It focuses on issues relating to the world's cultural heritage in the diversity of its creation, study, conservation and promotion.

The theme Matter Materiality focuses on the object and its uses over the centuries and across cultural areas.

This theme taps into the fundamental origins of art while inviting reflection on the major issues of our time: management of resources, sustainability, the environment, new technologies, digital dematerialisation, and more.

Matter and materiality are inherent to the conception, production, interpretation and conservation of artifacts in all cultures across all period. It focuses on issues relating to the world's cultural heritage in the diversity of its creation, study, conservation and promotion.

 

The programme

The congress has provided five intense days of scientific exchanges, with several programmes of conferences, round tables, debates and visits to cultural institutions and historic sites in and around Lyon and its Metropole.

Discover the programme of the 36th CIHA Congress Lyon 2024 :
PROGRAMME

Sunday 23 June 2024:

• Opening ceremony attended by national and regional authorities, partners and sponsors.
• Inaugural lecture by Ohran Pamuk, Nobel Prize for Literature, Chairman of the Honorary Committee.
• Opening of the Book Fair.

From Monday 24 to Thursday 27 June, 2024:

• 93 sessions led by researchers from 50 different countries and every continent.
  More than 750 papers have been remarkably selected by the session chairs with the help of the Executive Committee and the Advisory Committee from the nearly 1,800 proposals received in response to the Call for papers, which opened in June 2023 and closed on October 1, 2023.
• A program of round tables, presentations and workshops at lunch time and during the days.
• A Book Fair, bringing together around 50 publishers from all over the world, will be held throughout the congress and will be open to the general public. Each day will feature presentations of works by their authors, meetings with publishers and round-table discussions on topical issues. The Book Fair Programme has been conceived and organised by Olivier Bonfait, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Sophie Raux and Turner Edwards. Discover the Book Fair Programme.
• Invited Talks (Conferences, dialogues…) and performances were offered early evening each day in different places: auditoriums in the Convention centre or museums.
• Throughout the week, participants had the opportunity to discover the rich heritage of the city of Lyon or the studios of artists and restorers in the metropolitan area, art centres and galleries. Discover the Cultural Programme.
• On evenings, Receptions were offered to participants in museums. Discover the Receptions Programme.
• At the end of the day on Thursday 27 June 2024, the closing ceremony took place and the CIHA flag was handed over to the next organising committee of the CIHA Congress in 2028 which will be held in Washington DC (United States).

Friday 28 June 2024:

Thanks to the partnerships established with the region's museums and heritage organisations, discovery tours and presentations of the issues surrounding the conservation and enhancement of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region's heritage by leading specialists were offered with the help of a local Organising committee made up of academics and representatives of the DRAC, the Metropolitan Council's archives and museums, and the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage.

Discover the Tours of the Congress in the programme on the website:
PROGRAMME

 

The Invited Talks:

• Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Prize for Literature) for the inaugural lecture
• Eric de Chassey (Director of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art)
• Georges Didi-Huberman (Art historian and philosopher, EHESS)
• Sven Dupré (Professor, Director of the Research Institute for History and Art History of History of Art, Utrecht University) in dialogue with Guillaume Glorieux (Professor, Director of Teaching and Research, Ecole des Arts Joailliers, with the support of Van Cleef & Arpels), Emmanuelle Amiot (Head of Research, Ecole des Arts Joailliers) and Gérard Panczer (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
• Sheela Gowda (Artist) in dialogue with Devika Singh (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
• Tim Ingold (Emeritus Professor, Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeenen) in dialogue with Finbarr Barry Flood (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities, New York University)
• Antoine Picon (Director of Research, École des Ponts ParisTech ; Professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design)
• Neville Rowley (Curator for Early Italian paintings and sculptures at the Gemäldegalerie and the Bode-Museum in Berlin)
• Jefferson Pinder (Artist, Chicago)
• Gabriela Siracusano (Professor, Universidad Nacional De Tres De Febrero) in dialogue with Isabelle Pallot-Frossard (Fondation des sciences du patrimoine) and Salvador Muñoz-Viñas (Professor, Universitat Politècnica de València)
• Monika Wagner (Emeritus Professor in Art History, Universität Hamburg)

 

Who was the audience?

With its openness to all continents, generations and professions, the 36th CIHA Congress was a unique opportunity to forge links and welcome researchers and professionals from all horizons, in Lyon, a city rich in heritage and scientific institutions.

The industrial, artisanal, and artistic heritage of Lyon, an international crossroads since antiquity, offers a depth of field invaluable to discourse. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city has cultivated a long, layered history and connections linking it with the entire world.

The public was made up of professionals from all backgrounds: academics, researchers, doctoral students, curators (French museums, historic monuments, archaeologists, etc.), restorers, heritage scientists, architects, artists and designers from all over the world. Particular attention was paid to encouraging the mobility of young researchers and professionals, in particular with the publication of Call for grants on the website of the 36th CIHA Congress.

A number of research organisations (INHA, CNRS, Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine) and their counterparts in other countries, as well as academic institutions (Ecole du Louvre, Institut National du Patrimoine, etc.) took part in the Congress, and a number of Foundations were present (The Getty Foundation, la Fondation Bullukian, la Fondation TIQITAQ, The Kress Foundation, The Terra Foundation, etc.).

The last Congress was held by videoconference because of the pandemic. As the aim of the 36th CIHA Congress is to encourage people to meet on site, to stimulate exchanges and the foundation of an international network for reflection and work, it was essential to hold this event in person in order to encourage opportunities for sharing and dialogue.

Since 2020, it has been the first in-person meeting for professionals in the world of art history and heritage, and an opportunity for young researchers, restorers and curators to create a national and international network.

 

KEY DATES

June 12, 2023 : Opening of the Call for papers

September 15, 2023 : Closing of the Call for papers

September-October 2023 : Selection of the proposals by the chairs of the sessions

November, 2023 : Publication of the provisional program

February, 2024 : Publication of the final program

March 31, 2024 : End of the "Early bird" rate

April 2024: Opening of the registration for the Tours of the Friday 28, June

May 2024: Opening of the registration for the Cultural programme in Lyon and the Receptions

June 10: End of the "Standard" Rate

June 14: Publication of the Book Fair Programme

23-28 June 2024 : Congress

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